It is actually I have started fresh many many times. Less than 5% of accounts will get a follower. Maybe less than 1%. Dont believe me? Honestly, try it. The introductions tag can help a bit, but most non techie newbies dont know about the introductions tab.
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Interacting with people can help too. But if you think that followers are the problem just build a team that follows all noobs and occasionally asks for feedback. Because there might be entirely different things to consider.
For example, I noticed that it’s a strain on my data plan. An hour on nostr equals a week on X.
Getting your first follower on Nostr can be tough—give it a try and you'll see. As for data, Nostr lacks a scaling architecture, so clients use a lot right now. There's no clear path to scaling since it needs a uniform interface. That said, tools like Ditto should help reduce bandwidth.
You shouldn't need a follower to kick wot off. A simple like ir reply already does it.
Good to know, though that's still quite challenging. Give it a try—most replies come from a single account, and developers are having a tough time managing it.
I meant ideally.. Nostr WOT implementations are still really dumb and just look at the follow list :(
maybe some kind of captcha? Try to post to a relay, it sends you a captcha, solve it and send back in time, you get whitelisted. Is any of the current authorization methods flexible enough to support this? I could try to implement it in the WoT relay.
I just read NIP-42, i think we can use it for some kind of captcha.
Sure. I joined about 6 weeks ago, and the first follower took 2 weeks, if I remember correctly. But at least it was a human.
My first followers on X were cute Asian girlfriend bots with slightly misformed extremities in their self generated „photos“ 😂
I will be your Asian girlfriend
welcome to Nostr
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My account here is about 1-2 months old. I have enough followers to get daily interaction.
But my point is, I don't need any followers at all. I am here to find interesting news and I get those by following others.
I am free to comment on posts that others have written and if what I write are good comments, I will get replies and engagement and sometimes people follow back.
It's a simple and organic process that would work for anyone.
If anything, we would need a directory that analyses what topics users post about and then if I am into web development, the directory can tell me the 10 most active web development npubs so I can then easily follow them all and get my timeline bootstrapped with relevant content.